| Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual |  | Author: Barbara Brundage
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Photoshop Elements lets you do practically anything you want to your digital images. You can colorize black-and-white photos, remove red-eye, or distort shapes. With easy, step-by-step instructions, Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual gets you ready to make the most out of all the features available.
Photoshop Elements 8 Tips and Tricks
1. Highlight an object with color. It’s super easy to turn a color photo to a black and white image with only one colored object in it. In the photo on the left below, the waterlily looks fine but the dying leaves are distracting, so it might look better with only the flower in color. It’ll take you only a few seconds to get that effect. Just pick one of the Black & White settings for the Smart Brush and then drag over the lily. Elements does a pretty good job of finding the edges of the flower and makes it black and white, leaving the rest of the image in color. But if you turn on the Inverse checkbox before you drag, the lily stays colored and the rest of your image becomes black and white, saving you a lot of work.
2. Get rid of empty space. The new Recompose tool is great for fixing photos where squabbling siblings or cranky coworkers refused to stand close together. It’s also handy if you ever have to do how-to illustrations—you can easily get rid of extra space in a screenshot of a dialog box, for instance. You can also use Recompose to squish out unwanted elements in the middle of your photos, like in this seascape. In the pictures below, it brought the boats closer together and got rid of some of the condo sprawl in the background. Doing this left a little debris behind—a couple of stick-like lines from the largest condo—but one quick drag with the Healing brush, and there’s a lot more undeveloped beach left in the world.
3. One photo, two ways. The new Exposure Merge feature is great for blending together multiple (bracketed) exposures of the same scene, but if you only managed to get one good shot, you can process it twice in Elements’ Raw Converter—once for good shadowy areas, once for good highlights—and then merge the two into one image with good exposure throughout. You don’t even have to have a Raw format photo—it works with JPEG images, too. This is a JPEG photo where the interior was so underexposed that the lawn outside disappeared into a white glare when the interior was properly adjusted. So I made two versions, one for the indoor areas and one for the outside, then did the simplest exposure merge in Elements: an automatic merge. If I’d wanted to get fancy I could have had more control over the end result, but even the automatic merge is a big improvement over the first photo.
Product Description
Ideal for scrapbookers, serious and casual photographers, and budding graphic artists alike, Photoshop Elements 8 is more powerful and easier to use than previous versions. But figuring out how and when to use the program's tools is still tricky. With this book, you'll learn not only what each tool does, but also when it makes the most sense to use it and why. You get easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from importing photos to organizing, editing, sharing, and storing your images. And if a feature isn't all that it's cracked up to be, we'll tell you.How do you use the Photomerge Exposure? How do Quick Fix previews work? With a gentle introduction to get you started quickly, and advanced tips to help you produce really creative work, this Missing Manual provides the answers you need.Get crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of every featureLearn to import, organize, back up, and fix photos quickly and easilyRepair and restore old and damaged photos, and retouch any imageJazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effectsRemove unwanted objects from images with the new Recompose toolLearn advanced techniques like working with layers and applying blend modesDownload practice images and try new tricks right away
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 first time photoshop user opinion March 3, 2010
O. Awad
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a first time photoshop user, I was really against the idea of ever changing or enhancing your photos, I always thought you need to get them right in the Camera or it will be cheating, I'm not here to tell you why I changed my mind or how come I got to know how wrong I am. I want to share with you what I think about the book. I ordered both photoshop elements and this guide from Amazon the same day (I had downloaded the trial from Adobe website a couple of months back and then deleted it as I thought photoshop elements was complex and it is). I started reading the book and going over elements step by step and page by page. I am getting there and I'm loving it. It is a great way to teach you photoshop and it's working for me as a first time user. I'm having a wild time either simply enhancing my photos are just completely changing them. the possibilities are endless and the sky is the limit. This book as a great tool to teach you photoshop and get you where you'll be comfortable with a complex yet powerful software.
Shame on Adobe February 21, 2010
Paul Garland (El Paso, Texas USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A manual one half this good should be supplied with the software.
I have worked with full blown professional Photoshop for years. This book is really helpful...I recommed it highly.
Photoshop Elements 8 - the Missing Manual February 16, 2010
J. Shoun (Santa Maria, CA USA)
Book arrived in time for Christmas giving and was appreciated by my daughter to enable her to more quickly dive into use of the new software she also received for Christmas.
You need this helpful guide. February 5, 2010
FredM (New York)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Photoshop Elements Version 8's manual isn't entirely missing -- Adobe does supply you with several get-started pamphlets -- but if you want to really learn how to use this program, you need this book. As Adobe has made Elements "easier" to use, with multiple automated tools, it's also increased the complexity of the program and given you many more options. As valuable as the automation is, you still need to understand when to use each tool and how to apply them. For example, Elements' HDR-like Exposure Merge feature can be frustrating or mis-used unless you know exactly what it does. That's what you get from Brundage's comprensive coverage. Highly recommended.
Excellent manual! February 4, 2010
Gabriel Ross (Montreal, Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with the other reviews, this book does bear its name: clear explanations and an honest approach that tells you what parts are worth using, and when (or if at all!) Photoshop, even the "Elements" version, is fairly complicated as far as software goes. This book goes a long way toward breaking it down for you, I really enjoyed it.
There is a learning curve to this program: you have to wrap your mind around certain concepts. I use it for making web graphics for web design jobs. Like a lot of people, I was using GRSites for a long time, but Photoshop is really essential in the long run, and this book really took me a long way towards mastering it. Get this book, you can't lose. Great job, Barbara!
(I am also posting this review, slightly modified, to the author's "Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac", I've read both as I often use the Mac version of Photoshop.)
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